Topic: outgoing emails not going anywhere

[pwinkler]

Outgoing emails are just sitting in the queue

Tried a force resend but they are still there.

this is a copy of the reason for deferral..

 del     xdelay  reason
    5     100.23  CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3)/
   18   26151.15  Connected to 202.129.64.121 but connection died. (#4.4.2)/
    1     107.55  Connected to 210.193.135.77 but connection died. (#4.4.2)/
   16     320.72  Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. (#4.1.2)/
20844  157594.23  Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)/

pls help as this has been down for days now!

[chrisparker]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=21455.0

From the above thread, it seems to be a tinydns problem. Might be worth trying to upgrade it and reexpand its templates

[skelk]

Total Newb here...

How do I upgrade tinydns?  assume I am at a root prompt, what do I type to download and the re-expand?